Band name:
Two State Nation.
Where are you
from?
Birmingham,
Alabama US.
Who else is in
your band?
Shellina
Ryals - Lead Singer
Steven
Ryals - Guitar (spouse to Shellina)
Jesslyn
Parmley - Guitar
Isaac
Mixon - Drums
Amanda
Miller - Bass
How would you
describe yourselves and your music?
We are a garage
rock/indie rock band. Many of us have played music
together for years in various other projects. Shellina and Jesslyn began
working on a new sound
that would take a deeper rock sound than what any of us had previously
performed together.
We formed the
band in January, worked on songs in Feb-April, went into Studio in May-June,
mixed July-Aug, released the debut and
began touring.
Who are your
main influences musically?
Five people in
this band with almost opposing musical tastes but we found our unique sound
began to form at times when we covered
a little band called...The Dead Weather...or as we like to call it our favorite
Jack White side project. Our
personal main musical influences are a bit mix matched, our bass player is a
huge Manchester Orchestra/Kings
of Leon fan, our lead guitar player Johnny Greenwood(Radiohead) /John
Frusciante(Red Hot Chili Peppers) our rhythm
guitar player Damien Rice/Glen Hansard, our drummer a bit of Dave Matthews
Band/Avenge Sevenfold, and our lead
singer anyone from Bjork/Ani Difranco/Robert Plant.
What do you hope
to achieve in music?
As songwriters
and musicians our goal is to play and be heard like anyone else. We had a goal
to record, tour, and
perform our original songs. We have been honored to get to keep doing that with
our fall tour, and are now booking
into our spring/summer tour. For us to play and to be able to have a moment in
front of an audience is
why we do what we do...it's a wonderful blessing every time we play! We are
terrified, we perform, it
feels like an electrical boost, and we blink it's over and we want it again.
What has been
the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Our initial
album release party was the first time many of our songs had ever been played
before anyone. We had our
closest family and friends that packed themselves into our favorite little punk
dive called The Syndicate
Lounge. To hear everyone singing our songs back and jumping up and down to 10 Foot Golden
made every moment of work worth it for us! It was a surreal moment to hear
people connect to your
music.
And what’s the
moment you want to forget?
Hahaha...well
I'm not sure we can say as we must protect the innocent..but without those
moments of disaster on a
tour you don't really have the laughs have after you have survived it all...but
a few eager male fans at times
that have lead to a few interesting or cringeworthy moments I could desire to
forget.
If you had to
pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
That's hard as
each person in the band seems to have their favorite for various moments, however as a
band we tend to all agree that "Fool On Fire" is us at our most
natural relaxed state. We began a jam
in practice with the intro riff and that lead to the entire song coming
together almost
instantly.
Where can we
listen to it?
Where can we
find out more about your music?
Anything else
you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?
We are
having the time of our lives! We hope our music connects that attitude to
our fans. We are a very
close family and we love to play...the audience is always our focus. We have and always will
be a live band! Our goal is to make you laugh, make you sing, make you jump up and
down, give you a song when you cry, a song when you are pissed, a song when you don't
know your name, and a song to play for mom to show her how evolved you have become...or that band you play when you just need a smile!
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